PIH & OpenMRS: Priority Opportunities
Meeting Wednesday 5/26 with Amlan Dasgupta (API platform product lead), Nick Frenzer (Implementation) and Danyele Homer (Implementation).
Presentation outline
Introduction
OpenMRS summary, including scope of impact and development approach
PIH current OpenMRS implementation
OpenMRS value proposition - why its the system of choice for low resource settings
PIH and OpenMRS prioritization context
PIH site and global priorities for HIS (very general)
WHO Digital health interventions for health system strengthening
OpenMRS global roadmap and community landscape
Specific project opportunities
Messaging:
Be able to configure certain transactions or conditions to trigger and SMS and/or email message to clinicians.
Needs assessment from PIH internal research finding clinicians wanting to remove barriers to communication. WHO recommendations highlighted broader integrated communications as having an impact.
Problems to solve:
Get info directly into clinicians hands without requiring them to access the EMR: return of patient lab test results, notes etc.
Promote EMR use by increasing engagement via messages that bring users back into the system
Type of work/expertise/scope
Connecting prescribing and dispensing
Key gap in PIH EMR functionality.
Refer to Laura Ms doc on multiple ways this would be valuable across programs.
Type of work/expertise/scope
Pathology
Content and functionality requested by Rwanda and Haiti
Problems this solves
Type of work/expertise/scope
OCL